Ana Betancourt

Ana Betancourt

Infobox Person
name = Ana Betancourt

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birth_date = 14 December 1832
birth_place = Cuba
death_date = 7 February 1901
death_place = Madrid, Spain
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known_for = Patriotic support of Cuban independence from Spain and her support of women's emancipation as part of this struggle.
occupation = Cuban patriot

Ana Betancourt (born 14 December 1832 , Cuba - died 7 February 1901, Madrid) was a Cuban woman who took a leading role in the war of independence from Spain. She is a national heroine in Cuba.

Life

The first Cuban war of independence from Spain began in 1868. Women, known as Mambisas, played a significant role in the war, as political agitators, nurses, and fighters. Ana Betancourt, was from a wealthy landholding family and was one of the first to argue for women’s rights in Cuban. She was married to the patriot Ignacio Mora de la Pera. In 1869, she addressed the Constitutional Assembly of Cuban patriots at Guáimaro in which she linked female emancipation to the abolition of slavery and the struggle against colonialism. Although unused to hardship she lived in the forest with the revolutionaries.

On July 9, 1871, she and her husband were taken by surprise by the Spanish forces and captured. She was sentenced to exile in Spain where she lived the rest of her life never seeing de la Pera again. She continued to support the cause of Cuban independence from her exile.

At the age of 69 in 1901 she was about to return to her native country but contracted fulminating bronchopneumonia and died before she could begin her journey. Her remains were buried in Spain until 1968. In that year they were set in the pantheon of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, in the Cemetery Colón in Havana.

Commemorations

She is commemorated in the modern Republic of Cuba by the Order of Anna Betancourt medal, awarded to Cuban women who “demonstrate revolutionary and internationalist merit and anti-imperialist fidelity and/or great merit in a field of work that contributes to the national interest.” Originally this was the highest award of the Federation of Cuban Women, and the order was officially sanctioned in 1979 as a state award.

The Cuban Ana Betancourt schools for rural girls are named in her honor.

References

*cite web |url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/ana_betancourt.php |title=Ana Betancourt at The Dinner Party database |accessdate=2007-09-09 |author=Judy Chicago |date= |work= |publisher=Brooklyn Museum

*cite web |url=http://www.medals.org.uk/cuba/socialist-cuba/socialist-cuba003.htmhttp://www.guije.com/libros/patriotas/betancourt/index.htm
title=Ana Betancourt en Patriotas Cubanas |accessdate=2007-09-09 |language=Spanish |author=Mariano Jimenez II and Mariano G. Jiménez |date=September 2005 |work= |publisher=Guije.com

*cite web |url=http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=6577&limit=recent |title=Ana Betancourt Order |accessdate=2007-09-09 |author= |date=|work= |publisher=Orders and Medals Society of America

*cite web |url=http://www.cadenagramonte.cubaweb.cu/english/children/ana_betancourt.asp |title=Ana Betancourt de Mora: A history, a woman, a city

accessdate=2007-09-09 |author=Lázaro David Najarro Pujol
date= |work= |publisher=Radio Cadena Agramonte

*cite book |last=Stoner |first=K. Lynn |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography |year=2000 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |location= |isbn=0842026436
*cite book |last=Smith |first=Lois M. |authorlink= |coauthors=Padula, Alfred |title=Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba |year=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=USA |isbn=0195094913


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